By Elizabeth DaCunha
The Fall II season has just ended, so you know what that means… Spring sports season!!!
Even with COVID, students that I’ve talked to are most definitely excited to be able to play this season as it was missed last year during the height of the pandemic.
Starting up this week, students are back outdoors playing lacrosse, softball, baseball, track, and tennis.
I asked some of Fairhaven’s athletes for the details on sport regulations, and how this season compares to other sports seasons.
Senior Shanti Furtado gave insight on what this year’s tennis season is looking like: “Because tennis is already such a distanced sport in normal circumstances, not much has changed. We will just have to be more conscientious of sanitizing between sets, using only the balls assigned to our court, the home team only being allowed to handle the score cards, and of course… wearing masks.”
Ms. Furtado ended her statement by saying, “I hope our community will be at a point of safety at the start of the next school year, to lessen the measures to make sports normal for all. For now, we play on.”
Lacrosse player Olivia Turgeon spoke about her upcoming season and shared that the rules since the Winter and Fall II seasons haven’t seemed to change much for lacrosse.
For baseball season, Parker Herman shared rules that the CDC and Fairhaven’s coach have put in place for this season: “You need to wear a mask.. You also are not allowed to share equipment, e.g., we’re not allowed to have helmets given by the team this year. The coach also put in a rule that states if you make it on a team, you are to stay on that team. So basically you cannot play Varsity if you are put on JV. These rules will probably change the dynamic of the team and the program.”
While students may not be able to play up for a team in baseball, students playing lacrosse like Kaylei Joseph are upset that the amount of players on the field may lessen.
Ms. Joseph said that in her fall sport, field hockey, they fewer players on the field.
“So instead of an 11 vs. 11 game it was cut down to 7 vs. 7. That was the only major rule that affected us, but ti made it really difficult,’ she said.
Athletes are worried this cut in players on the field may affect lacrosse and spring sports in general as well.
Along with a cut of players on the field, there continues to be a cut in games because the seasons have to cut short in order to fit into the school year.
This, along with all the other changes made, aren’t necessarily ideal, but students that I spoke to are appreciative for the time they do have to play their sport for the Devils.
If you would like to watch any Spring sport games, please go onto Fairhaven High School’s Athletic Website and feel free to watch any live games.
To find the schedule for upcoming games visit southcoastconference.org
Here are a few to get you started:
Friday, 5/21
• 3:30 p.m. Girls Varsity Tennis vs. Case at Case.
• 3:30 p.m. Boys Varsity Tennis vs. Case at Hastings MS.
• 3:45 p.m. JV Baseball vs. ORR at ORR
• 3:45 p.mm Varsity Baseball vs. ORR at ORR
• 3:45 p.m. Softball JV vs. ORR at Hastings
• 3:45 p.m. Softball Varsity vs. ORR at Hastings
• 4 p.m. Boys Varsity Lacrosse vs. Apponequet at Apponequet
• 7 p.m. Girls Varsity Lacrosse vs. Apponequet at New Bedford HS
• 8:30 p.m. Girls JV Lacrosse vs. Apponequet at Fairhaven HS
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